The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-06-17
WHOLE NO. 936.
JEDGE WAXEM ABROAD.
HIS ARRIVAL IN LONDON, THE
WORLDS METROPOLIS.

WORLDS METROPOLIS.
A Letter Wherein Are Narrated the Ex-
periences of the Jedge and Mandy on
the Trip to the Big City Through
Devonshire from the South of England.
. . Especial Correspondence
LONDON, May IS.
We got away from Penzance safe and went
back to Plymouth to stay all night, SOS we
could come up to London in daylight and see
the country. t..-., -" r.. .s.-
Ther was one thing I noticed in Plymouth
that forgot to speak about, and that was a
habit the mayors 0; the place has fell into,
namely to wit-tbe erection of various me-
erial statutes in honor of their HayoraGty.
Fer instance, one has built big tower in an
open place, in front of so:ae public building,
with clock set up nigh the top of it, which
he tends to at his own expense; another one
has built fancy gateway to the park, and
named it after himself. and I reckon others
was guilty of the same weaknesses. though
they did not come under my immejiate eye
sight. While we was discussing these evi-
dences of the vanity of statesmen Mandy
surprised me by suggesting that ought to
do something of the sort in Wayback
"Well, Mandy" says to her, "if you will
tell me how congressman on S., 900 year is
going To- pay $4,000 to get elected and keep
himself and family OH the balance, rll try
and squeeze out monument fund"
She couldn't do it, of course, and that's one
of the reasons / am forever feminist women
fooling with politics. They always figger on
what an Office pays, without thinking about
what has to be paid to get hold of it.
We left Plymouth i'll the morning for Lon
don. taking second class tickets, because the
first class hotel we had stopped at had run our
treasury surplus down to war basis. and,
besides, second class is about as good as first
class. Th sc doggoned compartment cars are
nuisance any way they can be fixed up, and
if it wasn't for the sake of time and Mandy
I'd a long sight rather walk II we had them
in America they would be the cause of start
ing new political party inside of sixty days.
They amt nothing but the English social
system on wheels. The nobs ride first class,
the middlings take second and the masses go
third. The masses in America dominate the
ballot box, and candidate that would dare
to put on style and not so third class would
be scooped Oh the first deal. --,~
***
was amused on our way up by young
American, who had the English so bad that it
was breaking out all over him, and showing
clean through his clothes. He was in our ca
boose, and there was also Sir Somebody, and
they got to talking. listened till / heard the
baronet ask him if Mr.. Arthur was president
of the United States, and then subsidized and
began to talk scenery to Mandy. l knowed
the young fellow first rate and had talked on
the subject Of English aristocracy with him
till I was posted ON his weakness, and when
the Sir left tile cars turned OH him:
"Now," | says to him, "you are always
talking about the education and superiority
of these titled Englishmen; what do you think
of this one with a son married to an Ameri-
can, too, as he says, who don't even know
who is the president of the United States, the
greatest and the grandest republic OH Gods
green earthf'
"That's nothing, whatever" he stated in re-
ply, in a scorny tone of voice. English gen
tlemen have something else to think about be-
ei'les country wh"h thew consider o
fourth class power, if they consider it ut Ill.
There are other things of much more i'm
portance to them"
"They didn't seem to think SO in 1176 and in
1872" says to him. billing hot; "but that's
is that an educated Englshman that don't
know who the president of the United States
is is the same kind of an Englishman that an
American is an American who defends the
Englishman's ignorance"
This kind of settled him, but give him an
other when we got to London. There he
pointed. out a cab with coat of arms OH it
and said it belonged, with hundreds more
like it, to some duke or other.
"Does its" asst "Weil, will you tell me
what's the difference between duke that gifts
an income out of a hack line and is duke, and
livery stable keeper that does the same
thing and amt duke?" That time he
turned his back on me and refused to discuss
social questions with man who thought $50
cial" and "sociability" meant the same thing.
*** s.
The road from Plymouth to LoEdon runs
through Devonshire, which is much purifier
county than Cornwall and has great deal
less stone fence than that hard deestrict. In
fact, it looked to me like we was riding
through Blue Grass Kentucky, only there was
a smell of buttermilk pervadin' the atmos-
phere, instead of Bourbon, which most con-
gressinen know more about ID"
In every field there was herds of fine cattle
wasn't an acre of land that was not taken
care of as tenderly as if it had been baby.
IL the United States farms was run like these
English farms we would raise enough farm
products and garden truck to supply all the
known world and have surplus to ship off
to the planets. ##*
On the way a man pointed out to me the
house of the late Lord Iddesleigh, states
man after my own heart, and one that stood
closeter to the hearts of the people than any
have heard spoken of. The mouse is very
plain brick one, with the farm spread out
around it, and lots of farmers in America
have better ones. He wasn'5 ''castellated
lord,n and because he was plain man, he
was solid with the masses l thought as my
informant talked about the dead man till
the tears almost filed his eyes, that il when
l was gone the people talked so Of me I
wouldn't want no better monument. g$j
We rushed along part of the time at fifty
miles an hour, and while I don't like compart-
ment cars, nor the ugly English engines, LIDO
say that their railroads are built and run in
the very best style of the art. They don't use
cross ties, though they are coming toit, but
they put their rails on continuous line of
sleepers, bolted together with cross. pieces OF
wood, the rails bolted to the sleepers. It 4
takes about twice along TO lay atrack this 4
way and costs twice as much as our style,
but it is as slick as soap after it is done, and
a man can ride fast and not have his back
bone jerked out, and his body frescoed with
bruises as they do on some Of our roads. a
49, .a
Along in the afternoon the open places be-
tween towns grew less, and we kind of felt
we were getting near the great city, Mandy
was very quiet and looked out at the houses
thickening along the way. Going into a
strange city always makes me feel kind of
lonesome, and going into London. the biggest
one in the world, where among all its 5, 700
of beating hearts not one beat responsive to-
my own, and where of its 1e,000, 900 eyes not
one would be brighter by my coming, made
me feel as if was a wanderer on the face OF
the earth, man without a country. Mandy
was the connecting LINK, thouph and on l,erI
depended, and we di.a vel ss'rser tnSr..aer as
we came into the station, where We was tos
make our first appearances in London Like
cutting mans head off, it was soon over,
and before we had time to realize ne were lin
the city we were rattling off down town in a